MEH, so I cant take it to South Korea the other CDMA market (besides North America). Who cares. If this was GSM (which covers 98% of the globe) that "GPS control" would be something to hack, um, talk about ;^)...
"MEH, so I cant take it to South Korea" -- that's not the only way it would be useful. If not for the GPS lockout, you could use it to enable your CDMA phone to work anywhere in the world where you could get IP.
I suspect Sprint just doesn't want to get into the legal issues of international telephone service.
No. South Korea and North America are not the only markets of CDMA. And the GPS lock is to prevent people using their cell phones outside US as if they are in US.
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Frankenstein Black @ Mar 28th 2007 4:12PM
MEH, so I cant take it to South Korea the other CDMA market (besides North America). Who cares. If this was GSM (which covers 98% of the globe) that "GPS control" would be something to hack, um, talk about ;^)...
John Stracke @ Mar 28th 2007 7:12PM
"MEH, so I cant take it to South Korea" -- that's not the only way it would be useful. If not for the GPS lockout, you could use it to enable your CDMA phone to work anywhere in the world where you could get IP.
I suspect Sprint just doesn't want to get into the legal issues of international telephone service.
1w @ Mar 28th 2007 9:06PM
No. South Korea and North America are not the only markets of CDMA. And the GPS lock is to prevent people using their cell phones outside US as if they are in US.
Frankenstein Black @ Mar 29th 2007 12:48PM
US/Canada/Mexico/Brazil/South Korea. Thats it...
(WCDMA is not the same as CDMA, its actually UMTS)...